Live Jazz in SF Bay

S.E.Willis (vocals, piano, accordion, harmonica), Takezo Takeda (guitar, vocals), Paul Revelli (drums) and Karl Sevareid (bass) $20 Cover Charge / BYOB Students $10; Kids Free For Reservations call (415) 586-3733 S.E.Willis started playing music in 1967, working along the old Route 66 towns until moving to Northern California—different highways, same music. Willis is a multi-instrumentralist, beginning with organ and harmonica and later adding piano and accordion. He was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame in 1994, and has since received a Bay Area Music Award (Bammy) and a Blues Foundation Award for Band of the Year (Elvin Bishop Band). He has released 10 albums of his own music and appeared on a number of other recordings with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, the great New Orleans drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, Elvin Bishop and many others. His latest release is the recording “S.E.Willis and the Willing Live in Oakland, CA” from a show on May 5, 2024. He has been a featured soloist on many of the Legendary Blues Cruises and toured in Europe, North America and Japan. He has also appeared on stage with Elvin Bishop, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, Jimmy Rogers, James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins, Albert King, George Thorogood, John Nemeth and many more. S.E. (Steve) Willis has dedicated his working life to preserving and advancing traditional American music, perhaps most clearly with his 2007 release “Taproot: Songs of Robert Johnson and Hank Williams” and 2014’s “Turtle Dove Bounce,” a tribute to the piano players who defined 100 years of Blues piano style, in particular Pinetop Smith, Little Brother Montgomery, Big Maceo Meriweather and Leroy Carr. His original compositions respect and advance that tradition. The CD, “S.E.Willis and the Willing Live in Oakland” was released in 2025. Willis is known for tight, high energy shows and masterful vocals and instrumentalism.